Deaths in Tisbury -- Cause of Death Index

ANNOTATED INDEX OF CAUSES OF DEATH


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The following index includes a count of the more common causes, and identifies certain unfamiliar medical terms. I have not intended to give a technical medical description of these diseases (since I have absolutely no medical knowledge), but to translate antiquated popular names, and put the diseases in historical context. In particular, I have focused on the perceived causes and treatments of certain diseases.

Conditions of specific organs (e.g. Disease of Heart, Inflammation of Lungs) are indexed under the body part. This includes all causes modified by Acute, Chronic, Congestion of, Cramp of, Disease of, Dropsy of, Enlargement of, Hemorrhage from, Hypertrophy of, Inflammation of, Obstruction of, and Ulceration of.

Fevers, fractures, and cancers have been listed under fever, fracture, and cancer.


Sources: I have relied upon medical dictionaries of varying ages. Be sure to note the age of any quote listed here.


Spellings have been standardized to Dunglison. Unidentified words have been left in quotation marks. The term "(2nd)" after a death record number indicates that the cause was listed second in a town record with two causes given. If two counts are given, the first is the number of references in Section I, and the second (in parentheses) includes deaths from section II.


(not recorded in town records)  count = 77
Abdominal Inflammation        431
     Dunglison (Encoelitis):  "Inflammation of any of the abdominal viscera."
     ILCOD:  Included in a list of "ill defined" diseases.

Aberration Minor              480
     Dunglison (Aberration): "The passage of a fluid of the
living body into an order of vessels not destined for it."

Accidental                    241
Anasarca                      518 (2nd)
     Dunglison: (also General Dropsy) "Commonly, it begins to
manifest itself by swelling around the ankles; and is
characterized by tumefaction of the limbs and of the soft parts
covering the abdomen, thorax, and even the face, with paleness
and dryness of the skin, and pitting when any of these
(especially the ankles) are pressed upon."
     ILCOD:  Included in the list of "Ill-defined diseases."

Aneurism of the subclavian "atsa"  448 (2nd)
Aneurism                      329
     Dunglison (Aneurism):  "Properly, Aneurism signifies a
tumour, produced by the dilatation of an artery; but it has been
extended to lesions of arteries, as well as to dilatations of the heart."
                (Subclavian):  "That which is under the clavicle."


Apoplexy                      count: 16 (17)  [14 out of 17 are aged 60 and over]
                              103(2nd), 552, 557, 582, 624, 627, 668, 680, 702,
                         707, 742, 743, 786, 812, 813, 814, 878
     Foster:  "Properly, a stroke of paralysis. In typical cases,
the individual suddenly loses consciousness and all control over
the voluntary muscles. If he does not die at once, he remains for
a considerable length of time profoundly unconscious ... it is
commonly found that certain muscles, especially those of one side
of the body, are completely paralyzed."

Atresia Recti                 180
     Dunglison (Atresia):  "Imperforation."

Atrophy                       78
     Dunglison: (Also Marasmus) "Defective nutrition."
      ILCOD:  List of Undesirable Terms:  "Frequently cover[s]
tuberculosis and other definite causes."

Bladder, Disease of           476
Bladder[?], Hemorrhage from   825
Bowels, Inflammation of       8, 698, 843
Bowels, Interceptions of      584
Bowels, Obstruction of        847, 850
Bowels, Ulceration of         620, 751
Bowels, "[?]aration" of       348
Brain, "Cadeveic" [Cadaveric?] softening of  415 (2nd)
Brain, Concussion of          635
Brain, Congestion of          417? (2nd)
     Dunglison: (Cephalaemia) Accumulation of blood in the
vessels of the brain."

Brain, Disease of             197, 676
Brain, Dropsy of the          43, 113
     Dunglison: (Hydrocephalus) "A collection of water within the head."

Brain, Infection of           220
Brain, Inflammation of        464, 502, 797
Brain, Softening of           499, 536, 548
     Foster:  "As used by the laity, any disease, especially
general paresis of the insane, associated with progressive dementia."

Bright's Disease              780, 857, 864
Bronchitis                    Count: 9  (8 of 9 were age 67 and over)
                              200, 266, 345, 347, 444, 600, 706, 863, 882
Bronchitis, Acute             309
Burnt to Death                868
Cancer                        268, 645, 865, 881, 885
Cancer of the Uterus          805
Cancer on Stomach             414, 452, 501, 842, 852
Cancer of Womb                712, 784, 820
  See also Carcinoma Uteri

"Cancinsina" ["Carcinoma"?] Mole   516
Canker Rash                   107
     Foster:  "A variety of Scarlet Fever with an ulcerated throat."

Capillary Bronchitis          773
Carcinoma Uteri               546
Cart, Killed by a             611
Cauliflower Excrescence       546 (2nd)
     Dunglison:  "An excrescence, which appears about the origin
of the mucous membranes ... which resembles, in appearance, the
head of a cauliflower. It is often syphilitic in its character.
     Foster:  "Soft cancer of the cervix uteri."

"Cerebrilis[?] chrinin[?]"    816
     [Perhaps the word is "Cerebritis" which Dunglison gives as a
synonym for phrenitis. See Fever, Brain.]

Chest, Dropsy of the          230, 722
Childbirth                    49, 399, 690
"Chinoses"                    542
Cholera, Asiatic              18, 607
     Foster:  "An acute infectious disease indigenous to India,
whence it is at times conveyed to other parts of the world in the
form of destructive epidemics that follow the paths of human
travel."
      Dunglison:  "... is frightful in the rapidity  of its
progress, the patient sometimes dying in a few hours from the
first onset."

Cholera                       II-124
     Dunglison:  "A disease characterized by anxiety, gripings,
spasms in the legs and arms, and by vomiting and purging
(generally bilious)"


Cholera Infantum              Count = 18
                         17, 128, 131, 140, 141, 318, 365, 417, 466, 471,
                          505, 558, 614, 628, 693, 787, 793, 795
     Dunglison:  "It occurs, generally, in the middle states of
the Union, in June or July, and continues during the hot weather,
hence called the 'summer complaint.' ... The heat of the weather
seems to be the predisposing, if not the exciting, cause."
     Blakiston:  "Old term applied indiscriminately to diarrheal
conditions in infants and young children."

"Commis cluleloslus[?]"       560 (2nd)
Consumption                   Count = 104
                         1, 2, 13, 25, 42, 52, 55, 56, 57, 58, 61, 66, 67,
                         70, 72, 80, 89, 104, 106, 151, 176, 177, 179, 199, 202,
                         204, 235, 251, 256, 264, 280, 281, 289, 291, 301,
                         302, 307, 315, 317, 319, 330, 341, 350, 354, 355,
                         364, 372, 374, 377, 381, 382, 395, 402, 408, 413,
                         416, 424, 438, 440(2nd), 458, 470(2nd), 481, 488,
                         507, 545, 549, 568, 569, 573, 629, 640, 666, 673, 674,
                         684, 687, 695, 705, 708, 709, 727, 728, 736, 737,
                         740, 756, 758, 767, 776, 782, 803, 806, 809, 827,
                         831, 833, 845, 859, 871, 877, 879, 884, F-17, F-24,
                         F-27.
     Dunglison:  "Progressive emaciation or wasting away. This
condition precedes death in the greater part of chronic diseases, and
particularly in phthisis pulmonalis: on this account it is, that
phthisis has received the name consumption - See Phthisis."
     Blakiston:  "An old term, formerly used to designate progressive
tuberculosis."

Contusions                    631
Convulsions                   86, 201, 498 (all five years old or younger)
     Dunglison:  "any violent perversion of the animal movements."
     ILCOD:  List of Undesirable Terms:  "it is hoped that this
indefinite term will henceforth be restricted to those cases in which
the true cause of that symptom cannot be ascertained."

Croup                         count = 11 (all nine years old or younger)
                         124, 189, 233, 303, 375, 547, 559, 574, 597,
                         771, 796
     Dunglison:  (Cynanche Trachealis) "A disease characterized by
sonorous and suffocative breathing; harsh voice; cough, ringing, or
like the barking of a dog; fever, highly inflammatory. ... As a
general rule, it requires the most active treatment; bleeding from
the arm or neck, so as to induce paleness; leaches applied to the
neck, &c., according to the age, - the warm bath, blisters to the
neck or chest, and purgatives."
     ILCOD:  List of Undesirable Terms: "Write Diphtheria when this
disease is the cause of death."

"Cuachitis[?]"                686
Decay of system               724
Delirium Tremens              461
Dementia                      840
     Dunglison:  "In common parlance, and even in legal language, the
word is synonymous with insanity. Physicians, however, have applied
it to those cases of unsound mind which are characterized by the
total loss of the facility of thought, or by such imbecility of
intellect that the ideas are extremely incoherent..."

Diabetes                      470, 571 (2nd)
Diabetes Mellitus             719
Diarrhea                      count = 8 (six under age four, two 72 or older)
                         88, 90, 91, 218, 226, 334, 394, 846
     Dunglison:  "It is commonly caused by errors in the regimen, the
use of food noxious by its quality or quantity, &c."

Diarrhea, Chronic             95, 96, 162, 240?, 306
Diphtheria                    451 (2nd), 529, II-62
Dropsy                        count: 14  (ten were age 55 and older)
                         29, 46, 92, 105, 247, 284, 295, 410, 654, 753 (2nd),
                         772, 800, 819, 823
     ILCOD: List of Undesirable Terms:  "'Dropsy' should never be
returned as the cause of death without particulars as to its probable
origin ... "

Dropsy "fr.[?] Heart Duius[?]" [Disease?]
Drowned                  count = 21 (25)  (all from town records
                         except one were male mariners, ages ranging
between
                         14 and 65.)
                         193, 198, 242, 243, 244, 310, 311, 316, 343, 344,
                         404, 422, 477, 551, 591, 596, 617, 704, 715, 723,
                         755, 874, II-27, II-146, II-187
Ductus, Occlusion of the      560
Dumb Ague                     637
     Dunglison: (Fever, masked)  "An anomalous intermittent [fever],
the [symptoms] of which have not the regular stages, or are masked."

Dysentery                     count = 32  (16 are aged eight or younger, 7 are
                         aged 61 or older.)
                         8, 10, 12, 19, 20, 21, 23, 27, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35,
                          36, 60, 69, 120, 122, 125, 126, 205, 209, 221,
                          336(2nd), 409, 411, 506, 555, 581, 598, 615, 717
     Dunglison:  "It occurs, particularly, during the summer and
autumnal months, and in hot climates more than in cold: frequently,
also, in camps and prisons, in consequence of impure air, and
imperfect nourishment: and is often epidemic. ... Generally it yields
to mild laxatives, as castor oil,  combined with diaphoretic
narcotics ... but, at times, the inflammation runs on so speedily to
ulceration, that, unless a new action be rapidly excited, death will
be the consequence. In such cases, mercury must be rapidly introduced
into the system, and narcotics may be combined with it."

Dyspepsia                     415
"Elanpsia"                    493
Emphysema                     760
Entero Colitis                418, 467, 475
     Dunglison:  "Inflammation of the small intestine and colon."

Erysipelas                    134, 199, 362, 753
     Dunglison:  "A disease... of the skin, with general fever,
tension, and swelling of the part... copious bleeding and other
evacuants may be required."

Expose to Heat                502 (2nd)
Exposure                      II-149
Falling from the Mast head    453
Fell from Aloft               292, 406
Fever                         count = 14 (9 were mariners)
                         14, 127, 237, 245, 246, 249, 255, 275, 276, 287,
                         288, 299, 304, 479
Fever and Ague                606, 801
     See Fever, Intermittent.
Fever, Bilious          count = 36  (all male, 32 were mariners; ages range
                         from 18 to 60.)
                         9, 16, 26, 30, 50, 59, 68, 121, 231, 269, 296, 333,
                         340?, 366, 367, 380, 592, 601, 602, 605, 609, 610,
                         612, 613, 634, 670, 720, 739, 745, 785, 788, 815,
                         817, 839, 866, 876
     Dunglison:  "The common remittent fever of summer and autumn;
generally supposed to be owing to, or connected with, derangement of
the biliary system."
     ILCOD:  Included in the list of "ill defined" diseases.     
     McGrew:  [Notes that typhoid was occasionally called "bilious
fever" in eighteenth century Europe, and yellow fever was called
"autumnal bilious fever" in 1668 New York.]

Fever, Bilious Remittent      85, 139, 504
     Dunglison: (relapse) (also Relapsing or Recurrent Fever) "a form
of continued fever, which has occasionally appeared epidemically ...
and was generally attended with icteric symptoms. The main phenomena
disappeared at about the end of a week; but in many cases a relapse
occurred about the end of a fortnight. Few died of the affection."

Fever, Brain                  47, 71, 326(2nd), 384, 535, 658  
     Dunglison: (Phrenitis)  "Disease characterized by violent
pyrexia, pain in the head, redness of the face and eyes, intolerance
of light and sound, watchfulness, and delirium, either furious or
muttering. ... The most active treatment must necessarily be pursued.
Repeated bleeding; purging; the application of ice to the shaved
head; a position in which the head is raised; and the avoiding of
irritation of any kind; -form the remedial means during the violent
stage."
     Blakiston:  "Cerebral Meningitis"

Fever, Chagres                37
     Dunglison:  (also Panama Fever)  "A severe form of endemic
fever, common on the isthmus of Panama."
     Foster:  "A severe form of malarial fever acquired on the
isthmus of Panama, often developing into the pernicious haemorrhagic
form of malarial fever."
     
Fever, Intermittent           848
     Dunglison:  (Also Ague and Fever, Fever Intermittens)  "The
symptoms of intermittents are those of a decided and completely
marked cold stage or Stage of Concentration, ... the hot stage, or
stage of expansion, ... [and] the sweating stage or stage of
termination. ... The chief exciting cause is marsh miasmata, the
malaria of the Italians. Ague, also, occurs in districts where there
are no marshy emanations. Such districts are, generally, of a
volcanic nature:- further we know not."
     Blakiston:  "Malaria."

"Fever Intermettums"          632
      See Fever, Intermittent. 

Fever, Lung              count = 20 (21)  (ten are aged 58 or older)
                         4, 5, 6, 11, 109, 150, 232, 262, 279, 297, 339, 370,
                         373, 383, 396, 398, 401, 460, 642, 826, II-189
     Dunglison:  [notes it is a "vulgar" term for pneumonia.]
     Foster:  "Acute pneumonia"

Fever, Acute Nerve[?]         472
     Foster: (Nervous Fever): "Any fever characterized by decided
derangement of the nervous system, especially typhus fever and typhoid fever."
     ILCOD: "Nervous Fever" is listed as an "ill defined" term.

"Ovarian Fever"               118
Fever, Puerperal              332, 485, 491
     Dunglison:  "This name has been given to several acute diseases,
supervening on delivery. It means, generally, a malignant variety of
peritonitis, which runs its course very rapidly, and passes into a
typhoid condition... By the generality of practitioners, it is
esteemed to be eminently contagious; some, however, deny that it is so."

Fever, Remittent              94, 98, 802
     Dunglison:  "one which strikingly exacerbates and remits, but
without intermission. The ordinary bilious fever of the United States
is a simple remittent."
     Foster:  "A form of malarial fever..."

Fever, Rheumatic              439, 449
     Dunglison: (Acute Rheumatism) "usually comes on with the
ordinary symptoms of a fever; soon after which, or simultaneously, or
even before the appearance of febrile signs, excruciating pains are
felt in different parts of the body"

Fever, Scarlet                107, 263, 283
"Southern Fever"              34, 139?, 474, 693, II-26, II-148
     [I was not able to find any reference to this term in any old or
new medical texts, however it should be noted that the same disease
the Gazette called "Southern Fever", the town clerk recorded (in #34,
#139(?), and #693) as "Remittent Fever", "Bilious Remittent Fever" (?
See remark in 139.), and "Cholera Infantum".]

"Swamp Fever"                 665, 667
     ["Marsh Fever" was a synonym for malaria. Perhaps "Swamp Fever"
has a similar meaning?  There is also an infectious horse disease
called "Swamp Fever."]

Fever, Typhoid                Count = 36 (40)
                         133, 178, 336, 337, 373, 376, 397, 403, 442, 524,
                          525, 526, 538, 550, 579, 580, 595, 604, 616, 618,
                          621, 641, 700, 716, 718, 725, 731, 732, 733, 734,
                          750, 759, 768, 769, 781, 794, II-29, II-30,
                          II-32, II-71, F-7
     Blakiston:  "1) An old term for any condition resembling typhus."
     McGrew:  [Notes that it is difficult to distinguish from other
enteric fevers, and was commonly confused with typhus, hepatitis, and
tuberculosis.]

Fever, Typhus                 321, 346, 563, 575
Fever, Yellow                 Count = 8 (9)  [8 were mariners]
                         238, 254, 323, 386, 494, 572, 638, 873, II-28
     Foster:  "An acute infectious fever occurring endemically in the
West India islands and Central and South America during the warm
months."

Finger, wound in              61
"Firachitis [?]"              686 
Fit, Died in a                51, 430
Fits                          62, 108, 362, 741 [All aged five and under]
Foot, Inflammation in         40
Found Dead                    650
Fracture of Hip Joint         808 
Fracture of Right Thigh spontaneously  562 (2nd)
Fracture of Skull             664, 746, 807
Fracture of Thigh             630
Fracture of Thighs            442 (2nd)
Gastro Hepatitis              490
Gastritis                     869
     ILCOD: List of Undesirable Terms:  "Frequently worthless as a
statement of the actual cause of death; the term should not be
loosely used to cover almost any fatal affection with irritation of stomach."

General Debility              694, 774, 867 [All aged 52 and over]
     ILCOD: List of Undesirable Terms:  "Frequently cover[s]
tuberculosis and other definite causes."

Head, Dropsy of the           469
   [Hydrocephalus]  See Brain, Dropsy of the.

Heart Disease            Count = 28 (29)  [15 are aged 70 and over.]
                         38, 48, 130, 223, 228, 229, 271, 285, 313, 325, 328,
                          378, 393, 435, 437, 462, 485, 495, 626, 735, 764,                                                        
                          791, 828, 832, 835, 849, 854, 855, II-145, F-51
Heart, Dropsy of the          763, 671
Heart, Enlargement of         705
Heart, Hypertrophy of         661, 880
Hepatitis                     685
Hemiplegia Paralysis          701
Hemorrhage                    117, 576, 762
     ILCOD: List of Undesirable Terms:  "Frequently mask tuberculosis
or deaths from injuries ... "

Hip, Disease of               440
Hyctriephalus[?] [or Hyctruphalus?]  248
     [Perhaps "hydrocephalus"?]
"Inamonia"                    553
     [Perhaps "Pneumonia"?]
Infantile                     84
Inflamd. "Boun"[?]            862
Inflammation                  234, 710, 729
     ILCOD: List of Undesirable Terms:  "Of what organ or part of the
body? Cause?"

Influenza                     858, 861
Insanity                      678, 775
Intemperance                  461
Internal Bruise               619
Internal Injury               331
"Iuanition"[?]                482
Jaundice                      473
"Juanition"[?]                482
Kidney, "Caullr"[?] of        562
Kidney, Chronic Disease of    744
Kidney, Disease of            489  
Kidney, Inflammation of       738, 822
"Labis Mesartenia"[?]         510
Labour                        644
Leucocythaemia                651
Lightning, Killed by          53, 54
Lithiasis                     342
Liver complaint               754
Liver, Disease of             105 (dup.)
Lost at sea                   Count = 12 (14)  (presumably all mariners)
                         278, 387, 388, 389, 390, 428, 429, 531, 532, 646,
                          647, 648, II-24, II-47, II-128 
Lunatic                       97
Lungs, Congestion of          541, 810, II-87
     Dunglison:  (Stethaemia): "Congestion or accumulation of blood
in the pulmonary vessels."

Lungs, Disease of             349
Lungs, "Emplnia"[?]           338
Lungs, Inflammation of        412, 706, 818, 870?
Malignant Pustule             75
     Dunglison:  "Anthrax."

"Mamisson"                    625
Marasmus                      335, 710
     ILCOD: List of Undesirable Terms:  "This term covers a multitude
of worthless returns, many of which could be made definite and useful
by giving the name of the disease causing the 'marasmus' or wasting."

"Mavian" Dropsy               465
Measles                       450
Melancholia Exhaustion        789
Meningitis, Acute             314
Meningitis                    587
Metroperitonitis              456
Murdered                      322, 533
Nephritis Albuminosa          508
No Medical Attendance         430 (2nd), 570, 577, 652, 662, 663
"Oiliwry" Duct, Obstruction of  748
Old Age                  Count = 60  [All aged 74 and older]
                         41, 44, 76, 82, 83, 87, 103, 114, 132, 147, 148,
                          154, 158, 184, 186, 187, 213, 217, 253, 267, 312,
                          321 (2nd), 324, 420, 478, 511, 512, 513, 520, 523,
                          537, 543, 561, 566, 588, 599, 623, 636, 639, 656,
                          659, 669, 672, 677, 682, 689, 696, 701, 703, 713,
                          747, 757, 765, 766, 770, 790, 821, 838, 853, 856
"Otovibocar Meumegitis"       554
Ovarian cyst                  431
Ovarian Dropsy                214
Palsy                        Count = 4 (5)  [All age 61 and older]
                         152, 369, 514, 655, F-8
     Dunglison:  "Paralysis."
     ILCOD: List of Undesirable Terms:  "The vague use of these terms
should be avoided, and the precise form stated ... "
  
Paralysis                Count = 11  [10 are aged 53 and older]
                         159?, 190, 329 (2nd), 509, 530, 707, 761, 778, 811,
                          834, 883
     Dunglison:  "The immediate cause is, generally, pressure, either
by blood effused, or by serum, or by vascular turgescence. At its
onset, therefore, blood-letting may be advisable; but, afterwards,
the disease becomes one of nervous debility, and requires stimulants
to the paralyzed parts, or the mucous membranes."
     ILCOD: List of Undesirable Terms:  "The vague use of these terms
should be avoided, and the precise form stated ... "

Paraplegia                    824
Parturition                   583
"Parisigs Similis" Exhaustion 752
"Penearctitis"                517
"Penomisa"[?] Abscess         830
Pericarditis                  556
Peritonitis                   792
Peritonitis, Adynamic         434
Phrenitis                     594
     See Fever, Brain.

Phthisis                 Count = 14
                         185, 239, 419, 423, 426, 446, 527, 539, 565, 578,
                          590, 593, 851, 875
     Foster:  "1) Any wasting, atrophic process.  2) As usually
employed, pulmonary tuberculosis."
     Blakiston:  "1) Old term for tuberculosis.  2) Old term for any
disease characterized by emaciation and loss of strength, especially
diseases of the lungs."

Phthisis Pulmonalis      Count = 9
                         106 (dup.), 115, 135, 515, 649, 674, 688, 699, 711
     Dunglison:  "Occasionally, this formidable disease occurs
accidently; but, usually, it is caused by a conformation obtained
from progenitors. This, at least, predisposes to it; and but a slight
exciting cause may be required to rouse the predisposition into
action."
     Foster:  "Pulmonary Tuberculosis"

"Plelluoalis"[?]              500 (2nd)
"Plemitis"                    425
Pleurisy                      352, 622
Pleurisy, Chronic             196
Pleurisy "Clorine"[?]         798
Pleuro Pneumonia              432
Pneumonia                count = 13
                         109 (dup.), 161, 164, 441, 446 (2nd), 448, 451, 468,                           486, 633, 681, 692, 726, 777
     Dunglison:  "The most active treatment is of course necessary.
General bleeding forms the sheet anchor, - employed so as to make a
decided impression on the system, and repeated, if necessary; local
bloodletting; nauseating doses of antimonials; purgatives; and when
the violence of the inflammation has been got under, -
counterirritants, &c."

Premature birth               15
Puerperal anaemia             74
Puerperal Convulsions         225
Purpura                       188 (dup.)
     Dunglison:  "It generally means livid spots on the skin from
extravasated blood, with languor or loss of muscular strength, and
pain in the limbs."

Pulmonary Oedema, Acute       208
Pulmonary Tuberculous         799
Railroad car, Killed by       567  
Retention of Urine            111, 564, 679 [All men aged 53 and older]
Rheumatism                    837
Rheumatism, Acute             182
Rheumatism, Chronic           39, 603
Rupture                       45
     Foster:  "A popular term for hernia."

Scald                         175 
Scarlatina                    643, 657, 872 (all aged 8 and under)
Scrofula                      714, 783
Scurvy                        721
Scurvy, Land                  188
     Foster:  "Scurvy occurring among landsmen."

Senectus Ultima               436
     Dunglison:  "Decrepitude."

"Sentams"[?], Dropsy of       571
"Sephritis Hllums"[?]         518
Shot himself                  697
Shot                          II-78, II-136
Shot, Pistol                  841
Smallpox                 405, II-167
Smoking Tobacco               500
Spleen, Enlargement of        137
Stillborn                count = 23 (30)
                         63, 64, 77, 79, 81, 101, 102, 119, 123, 138, 145,
                          146, 215, 224, 227, 320, 407, 534, 586, 589, 675,
                          836, 844, II-38, II-41, II-42, II-43, II-44,
                          II-118, II-161
Stomach, Chronic Inflammation of  503
Stomach, Cramp of             779
Stomach, Hemorrhage from      93
Stomach, Inflammation of      257
Stomach, Ulceration of        492
Struck by fore Boom           427
"Suanition"[?]                482
"Sucite"[?] Gangrene          540
     [Perhaps "Senile Gangrene"?? Blakiston describes it as a dry
gangrene common among the elderly with arteriosclerosis.]

Suddenly                      136
     ILCOD: Listed as an "ill defined" term.

Suicide                       216
Tetanus                       443
Throat, Inflammation of       100
"Tschunia renatis"            455
"Tuberclis"                   608
     [Perhaps "Tuberculosis"?]
Tumor                         860
Typhoid Pneumonia             730
     ILCOD: List of Undesirable Terms:  "The term 'Typhoid pneumonia'
should never be employed, as it may mean either Enteric Fever
(Typhoid Fever) with pulmonary complications, on the one hand, or
Pneumonia with so-called typhoid symptoms on the other."

Typhoides, "Depenlina"        522
Typhoides, "Depentira"        528
Unknown                  Count = 25
                         153, 155, 170, 191, 194, 195, 206, 252, 258, 259,
                          260, 261, 277, 327, 454, 457, 459, 463, 496, 497,
                          519, 521, 660, 683, 691
Whooping Cough                129, 250
Womb, Hemorrhage from the     749
Wounds received in battle     II-186, II-101, II-105